Territorial Limits Quotes

I want Israel to have borders. For that, I need a map. I need a map on which our borders are specified.

There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon them on account of their birth in the country, or that they will be judged by any different rule, on the subject of treason, than persons of foreign birth.

Whoever shall settle any Colonie out of the limits of the Manhattes Island, shall be obliged to satisfy the Indians for the land they shall settle upon

Be it enacted ..., That all non-citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States be, and they are hereby, declared to be citizens of the United States

The laws of England are bounded by the four seas and do not reach America.

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

A border is a border. I have to be conscious of both my borders. I will also have be conscious of my sea. It is less talked about.

It is confidently believed that our system may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits.

One cannot kick against geography!

I think there is something about countries and nations that is hard to define. And, in fact, that's probably why we create such massive boundaries - because it's so slippery where they begin and where they end.

It is well to remember, however, that the geographical extent of the Monroe Doctrine has never been precisely delimited. Monroe spoke of "the American Continents" or, in other words, North and South America. Does this wholly exclude Antarctica, and if not, what part of that region is included?

Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered.